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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria — Edo State 2024 gubernatorial aspirant Hon. Gideon Obhakhan has pledged to ensure quality education, improved agriculture, Information Communications Technology development, youths and women empowerment if elected the state governor. A former commissioner for Education, Obhakhan who commended President Bola Tinubu for mustering the courage to have  removed the long talked about petrol …

President Bola Tinubu has signed four Executive Orders one of which is the suspension of the five per cent Excise Tax on telecommunication services and the Excise Duties escalation on locally manufactured products. Among them is the The Finance Act (Effective Date Variation) Order, 2023, which defers the commencement date of the changes contained in the Act from May 23, …

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Kyari was on Thursday granted bail by Justice James Omotosho in a charge in which he and two of his siblings – Baba Kyari and Ali Kyari are accused of failing to declare assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Abba …

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, CFR,  has endorsed the judgement of an Edo State High court which ordered Madam Enoghayin and Miss Otasowie Ogiemwonyi to take legal and physical possession of late Mr Washington Osaretin Ogiemwonyi’s property known as 7A, Upper Sokponba Road in Benin City, after granting approval for his burial rites in accordance with Benin customs …

A forensic analysis has declared that the content of the 2017 viral video which captured former Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, allegedly receiving bundles of dollar notes as a bribe from a contractor and stuffing them in his flowing dress was not doctored but real video. Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimingado …

The House of Representatives has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stay any punitive actions against Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme over the alleged falsification of her JAMB score. This followed the adoption of a motion by Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP-Bayelsa) at plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. Miss Ejikeme had claimed to have scored 362 against 249, which the board …

…Vows not to abandon Nigerians to their fate The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said the recent hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly known as petrol, and other perceived anti-poor policies were weapons of war against Nigerian workers and masses. According to NLC, impoverishing workers and pushing millions more into hellish living does not, in …

• Essential medicine scarce, out of stock• Hospitals, practitioners apprehensive Nigerians may have begun to feel the inflationary impact of floating of the Naira as well as subsidy removal as prices of essential drugs and cost of care in the health sector have spiked lately, much to the discomfort of care seekers and practitioners. Findings, yesterday, showed that some of …

Tinubu meets Adamu, Omisore Tempers flared yesterday on the floor of the senate as lawmakers in the camp of the Senate President,  Godswill Akpabio, clashed over a stepped down motion bordering on the disbursement of N500 billion loan. The crisis pitted lawmakers that benefitted from the recent announcement of principal officers by Akpabio, against the losers. On Tuesday, Akpabio had released the …

MINSK, Belarus — Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained at the camps where they had stayed before a short-lived mutiny against Moscow, the president of Belarus said Thursday. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with foreign correspondents, in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Belarusian President Alexander …